Over the next few years, however, the anti-communist atmosphere of the early Cold War began to erode Labor's support.

While the Liberals took only two seats from Labor, Askin got the support of the two independent members, Douglas Darby ( Manly ) and Harold Coates ( Hartley ), giving him enough support to end Labor's 24-year run in power.

The Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs, Labor's Laurie Brereton, was vocal in highlighting evidence of the Indonesian military's involvement in pro-integrationist violence and advocated United Nations peacekeeping to support the East Timor's ballot.

These changes appear to have been his undoing, as it is likely that they were key factors in Labor's strong support in the election of 28 June 1904, after which James was defeated when Parliament next met on 10 August 1904.

The Right is most famous for its support of Third Way policies over Labor's traditional social democratic / democratic socialist policies, such as the economic rationalist policies of the Hawke and Keating governments, like floating the Australian Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, the privatisation of Qantas and Commonwealth Bank, and deregulating the banking system.

He and the party's foreign affairs spokesperson, Kevin Rudd, met the United States ambassador, Tom Schieffer, to stress Labor's continuing support for the Australian – American alliance.

Latham's commitment to withdraw from Iraq caused a sharp drop in Labor's lead, but following the revelations of prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison, Labor's lead increased again, suggesting that support for involvement in Iraq had declined, undermining Howard's position.

In the early stages of the parliament, the Labor party engaged in a partnership with the more radical Protectionists, but Labor's wide-ranging policies for social reform met with only lukewarm support from most Protectionists.

But his support for retaining some elements of the White Australia Policy in Labor's platform caused Whitlam to remove him from the portfolio.

On Labor's victory at the 2007 election, Keating said that he was relieved, rather than happy, that the Howard government had been removed.

The Menzies government was able to exploit Labor's divisions over the Cold War and the American alliance, winning an increased majority at what would be Menzies ' last election, the 1963 election.

Bracks was immediately elected to Labor's front bench, as Shadow Minister for Employment, Industrial Relations and Tourism.

Labor's broken election promise on Eastlink was also expected to be a factor in some seats in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

The IWW's goal was to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class ; its motto was " an injury to one is an injury to all ", which improved upon the 19th century Knights of Labor's creed, " an injury to one is the concern of all.

However, due to the subsequent Fraser Government's repudiation of Labor's decentralisation policies, the plan to populate inland areas and cities other than the State capitals, was abandoned.

Labor's political power was significantly weakened by free market reforms during the 1990s, as well as the cooptation of its leaders by the Menem administration.

her victory was due in large part to Labor's collapse in Queensland ; the party lost all but two of its 13 seats in the state.

After Labor's defeat at the 1927 election, Lang was Opposition Leader again from 1927 to October 1930.

Likud's Moshe Katsav's victory over Labor's Shimon Peres in 2000 ( by secret ballot ) was an upset.

This was a result not of Hughes's exploits overseas, but more his Parliamentary decision to cancel Labor's plan to " Nationalise wage unity ".

He made little progress against Joseph Lyons ' government ( which was returned to office at the 1937 election by a comfortable margin ); but after Lyons ' death in 1939, Labor's position improved.

He was an Opposition front-bencher until Labor's defeat at the 1998 election.

In November 2001, following Labor's third consecutive election defeat, he was elected unopposed as the Leader of the Labor Party and the opposition following the resignation of Kim Beazley.

In 2007 after Labor's election victory, Crean was appointed Minister for Trade in Kevin Rudd's ministry.

The Liberal Party state government of Robert Askin, which came to power in 1966, was keen to break Labor's control of the City of Sydney.

His seat of East Sydney was won by Labor's John West, in an election which saw Labor win 42 of 75 seats, against the CLP on 31 seats.

Under Evatt, Labor's attitude towards the Industrial Groups began to change as Evatt suspected that one of their aims was to promote the Catholic element within the Labor Party.

At the 1963 election, Calwell hoped to build on his gains from two years earlier, but was severely crippled by a picture in the The Daily Telegraph showing he and Whitlam waiting outside a Canberra hotel for Labor's Federal Conference to tell them what policies on which they were to fight the election.

Cook was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as MP for the coalfields seat of Hartley in 1891, in Labor's first big breakthrough in Australian politics.

Labor's program, however, was frequently too radical for the Protectionists, and compromises had to be made.

A scandalised establishment pressured the two non-Labor parties to form an anti-socialist alliance, which saw Deakin and Anti-Socialist Party leader Joseph Cook believe a merger was needed to counter Labor's increasing electoral dominance.

Precedents for independent MP speakers are former LNP member Peter Slipper who is the current speaker in the hung parliament resulting from the 2010 election ; Frederick Holder who was initially elected for the Free Trade Party at the inaugural 1901 election, serving as an independent while speaker until his death in 1909 ; and in the Senate, Labor's Mal Colston became an independent and Deputy President of the Senate following the 1996 election.

At the 1904 election, Labor obtained three seats short of a majority, and when Parliament met, James's government fell on a vote of no confidence when four independents decided to back Labor's Henry Daglish to form government.

In November 1967 the government suffered a serious setback in the Senate elections, winning just 42. 8 per cent of the vote against Labor's 45 per cent.

Bracks ' second government achieved one of Victorian Labor's longest-held goals with a complete reform of the state's system for electing its upper house.

The Labor government increased their parliamentary majority on 24 November 2011 from 75 – 74 to 76 – 73 when the Coalition's Peter Slipper became Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, replacing Labor's Harry Jenkins.

The government increased their parliamentary majority on 24 November 2011 from 75 – 74 to 76 – 73 when the Coalition's Peter Slipper became an independent MP and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, replacing Labor's Harry Jenkins.

As Prime Minister, Deakin completed a significant legislative program that makes him, with Labor's Andrew Fisher, the founder of an effective Commonwealth government.

In January 2011, Labor Party leader Barak formed a breakaway party, Independence, which enabled him to maintain his loyal Labor's MK faction within Netanyahu's government, and prevented the departure of Labor party as a whole from Netanyahu's coalition-government.

The Labor government increased their parliamentary majority on 24 November 2011 from 75 – 74 to 76 – 73 when the Coalition's Peter Slipper became Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, replacing Labor's Harry Jenkins.

At the 1913 election, Labor's Charles McDonald was offered retention of the speakership by the incoming one-seat-majority Commonwealth Liberal Party, but declined – later however, after Labor's return to government at the 1914 election, McDonald regained the speakership until the subsequent election despite the mid-term change to a Nationalist Party government.

Following the election of the Howard government at the 1996 election, Labor's Mal Colston became an independent MP and Deputy President of the Senate.

South Australia's debt achieved a AAA rating under the Rann Labor government, prompting Business SA chief executive Peter Vaughan to praise Labor's economic management.

Peretz stated his intention to reassert Labor's traditional socialist policies and took Labor party out of the government, prompting Sharon to resign and call for new elections in March 2006.

The election saw the Hawke government returned with an increased majority in the House of Representatives, and Labor's largest ever lower house seat count in an election but with no majority in the Senate.

* 1989: State election ends with Labor-Green accord involving five independents ; their no-confidence vote in Robin Gray's minority Liberal government gives Labor's Michael Field premiership

She maintained these portfolios in government after Labor's victory in the 2007 election, overseeing the formal apology to the " stolen generations " delivered by Kevin Rudd in February 2008.

Labor's loss at the 1975 Bass by-election caused by Barnard's resignation was seen by many as the beginning of the end for the Whitlam government.

The war also brought to an end Labor's previous efforts to delegitimize Revisionism, because on the eve of the war, the dominant party felt it had to include the Revisionist opposition in an emergency national unity government.

His resignation in 1975 was followed by Labor's heavy defeat in the Bass by-election, which is seen as the beginning of the end of the Whitlam government.